Improved washing-machine



wweeeeaeww I-I. B. TIBBITS, OF VINELAND, NEW JERSEY.

` y Laim Patent No. 87,731, dated March 9,1869.

IMPRovED wAsHINMAcHINE.

To all whom. fit may concern.-

- Be itknown that I, H. B. TIBBrTs, of Vineland, in the county of Cumberland, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

v and exact description thereof, which will enable others ing clothes; and consists in the application of a rub..-

ber aniboxbottom, of peculiar form and construction,

whereby, when the requisite vmotion is imparted to the rubber, a combined rubbing and striking-action is produced.

The lower face of the rubber is V- shaped, and cor l rugated, or roughened.

The bottom of the suds-box is also V- shaped, and roughened, or corrugated.

'Ihe rubber working on it will be drawn from o ne inclined face of the bottom to the other, and will rub the clothes as it travels o n each face, striking or pounding them, as it reaches the end ofthe stroke.

A, in the drawing, represents the suds-box of my improved washing-machine.

v Its bottom', B, inclines from the two ends downward, toward the middle, so as to have a V shaped cross-section, as is clearly shown in g.'1.

The upper surface of the bottom, B, is corrugated, or roughened, as shown.

O is the rubber. It is considerably shorter than the box, but nearly of equal width. v

Its under side is higher at the ends than in themiddle, so as also to be V shaped, as shown.

The rubberis rigidly secured to an inverted U-shaped lever, or bar, D,which is, with its outer end, connected -with the crank ay of a shaft, E, that is hung on the outside of the box A. By revolving the crank, the rubber will be moved back and forth in the box.

When the rubber is at the outer end of its stroke, its surface, b, will be on the surface, c, of the bottom, as shown-by red lines in fig. 1.

When drawn in, it moves on the surface c, and rubs the clothes placed thereon, and when at the end of its inward stroke, its surface, d, strikes the surface, c, of the bottom.

While moving outward, it will travel on the surface, e, and will rub the clothes thereon. p

At the end of each stroke it will strike the oppo site surface of the bottom, and will thereby pound the clothes.

It constantly draws the clothes toward the middle of the box, without crowding them, so as to hold them away from the ends.

A very quick and entirely successful operation will be produced by means of this machine.

When the rubber is to beheld out of the way, it is .placed upon a cross-bar, F, of thebox, as indicated by dotted lines in fig.'1, a pivoted arm, f, secured to an extension of the box, being swung out, to arrest the crank, and to lock the rubber in ythis elevated position.

' It will be noticed, that when thus elevated, the rub` ber stands inclined, to allow the suds to drop off its upper and lower sides.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the horizontal'rubber C and crank-shaft E, when connected together by the rigid connecting-rod D, all arranged and operating substratitially as herein shown and described.

H. B. TIBBITS.,

Witnesses: l y

J. B. Goeeswnm., Grao.v A. OHEEVER. 

